Mitten im 8en

Mitten im 8en (or Mitten im Achten, abbreviated MiA) was an Austrian TV soap/comedy series produced by the ORF which ran from 10 May to 29 June 2007. The title translates to "In the Middle of the 8th" (district), referring to Vienna's Josefstadt.

Repeatedly announced to be a core feature of the retuned programming by ORF's new management, the show received extremely bad ratings and devastating criticism from the start, and was thus cancelled in the middle of its first season.

Setup

MiA was set to air at 7:30 pm on weekdays on ORF1, replacing the main evening newscast (Zeit im Bild), which until then was broadcast on both ORF TV channels simultaneously.

The plot revolved around a family, a neighbouring flat share, and a bar in Vienna. It showed a demagogic mix of stereotypical, one-dimensional characters, often drawing humor from their incompatibility, and mocking cliches rather than providing real identification figures.

The underlying concept was of John de Mol's, and was known to have failed before in the Netherlands. For Austria it was redone to combine Viennese humor and language style with slapstick and sketch-like comedy as well as dramatic elements and focus on character relationships.

MI8

MI8, or Military Intelligence, Section 8 was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. It originally consisted of four sections: MI8(a), which dealt with wireless policy; MI8(b), based at the General Post Office, dealt with commercial and trade cables; MI8(c) dealt with the distribution of intelligence derived from censorship; and MI8(d), which liaised with the cable companies. During WW1 MI8 officers were posted to the cable terminals at Poldhu Point and Mullion in Cornwall and Clifden in County Gallway, continued until 1917 when the work was taken over by the Admiralty. In WW2, MI8 was responsible for the extensive War Office Y Group and briefly, for the Radio Security Service.

History

MI8 was the signals intelligence department of the War Office that ran a worldwide Y station network. For an 18-month period, from late 1939 to mid 1941, it ran the Radio Security Service, under the designation of MI8c.

MI8 evolved from the Illicit Wireless Intercept Organisation (IWIO), which was given the designation MI1g and run by Lt Col. J S Yule. From an office in Broadway, IWIO collaborated with Military Intelligence, Section 5 (MI5) and with the General Post Office (GPO) to set up and control a small network of Direction Finding (DF) and intercept stations, to locate illicit transmissions inside Britain. Col Yule also made detailed plans for similar networks in British overseas territories, before IWIO evolved into RSS in September 1939.

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